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Nurse Practitioner March 2012 Vanya Hamrin et al.	Evaluation and Management of Pediatric and Adolescent Depression The primary care setting is an appropriate venue for screening and identifying pediatric depression. Nurse practitioners can provide initial management or referral to psychiatric mental health professionals for evidence-based treatments.
Managed Care April 2006 Tony Berberabe	Insurers Rely on Providers To Screen for Depression With access only to claims data, health plans strive to promote the importance of depression screening to their providers.
Managed Care May 2004 MargaretAnn Cross	Depression Programs Might Provide an Edge There may be some costs up front, but there is also an opportunity for health plans to profit as employers' concern about this issue grows.
American Family Physician July 1, 2000 Ted D. Epperly	Health Issues in Men: Part II. Common Psychosocial Disorders During screening examinations and, when appropriate, other health-related visits, family physicians should be alert for signs and symptoms of common psychosocial disorders in men. Health issues of concern include alcohol and substance abuse, domestic violence, midlife crisis and depression.
AskMen.com Julian Marcus	Are You Bipolar? Bipolar disorder, also known as manic-depressive illness, is one of the least understood and potentially most destructive mental health disorders.
Managed Care August 2006 Cross & Sipkoff	Although Employers Need Depression Programs, They May Not Know It Yet Research says the hidden cost of untreated depression far outweighs the cost of treatment. Plans need to get this information to purchasers.
American Family Physician November 15, 2005 Haas et al.	Management of the Difficult Patient All physicians must care for some patients who are perceived as difficult because of behavioral or emotional aspects that affect their care. Specific communication techniques and greater patient involvement in the process of care may enhance the relationship.
AskMen.com Jacob Franek	Mental Health For Men Greater understanding of new and emerging mental illnesses for men is important, and hopefully the following will help to raise your awareness.
American Family Physician March 15, 2007 Freedy & Simpson	Disaster-Related Physical and Mental Health: A Role for the Family Physician Family physicians should be prepared to work with other health care professionals in the community to share the collective load in meeting post-disaster health needs; such partnerships should be established well in advance of a disaster.
Managed Care December 2005 Lola Butcher	Kansas City Focuses on Depression Health plans, researchers, employers, and workers make common cause to identify and treat depression.
Managed Care June 2007 Lisa A. Higgins	Sobering Stats Invite Insurers To Fight Alcoholism Effectively Health plans may not be able to control problem drinking by their members. They can, however, affect the way their contracted providers approach the problem. And that may be what makes the difference.
American Family Physician January 1, 2007 Shashi & Subhash Bhatia	Childhood and Adolescent Depression Safe and effective treatment of major depression in this age group requires accurate diagnosis, suicide risk assessment, and use of evidence-based therapies.
Nursing April 2008 Kathryn Murphy	Shedding the burden of depression & anxiety Learn about types of depression and available treatments.
American Family Physician November 1, 2003 Stovall & Domino	Approaching the Suicidal Patient In an attempt to help the family physician prevent suicide, this article reviews known risk factors and offers a strategy for assessing and addressing these factors in individual patients.
Managed Care June 2003 Frank Diamond	How To Manage the Worried Well They have symptoms, but that doesn't mean primary care physicians can pinpoint a physical problem. Yet they do suffer, and are a cost center for insurers and employers.
American Family Physician October 15, 2004 Randy K. Ward	Assessment and Management of Personality Disorders Patients with personality disorders are common in primary care settings; caring for them can be difficult. The characteristics of these patients' personalities tend to elicit strong feelings in physicians, lead to the development of problematic physician-patient relationships, and complicate the task of diagnosing and managing medical and psychiatric disorders.
Reason January 2003 Jacob Sullum	Head Games What are the rules for defining mental illness?
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ifeminists October 4, 2006 Tony Zizza	Time To Boycott National Depression Screening Day In the U.S., whenever National Depression Screening Day rears its ugly head in the mainstream media every first week in October, we have the opportunity to review some serious doublethink that does not change much with each passing year.
American Family Physician October 15, 2006	Depression: What You Should Know A patient guide: What is depression?... What causes depression?... Symptoms of Depression... How is depression diagnosed?... etc.
American Family Physician January 1, 2007	Depression in Children and Teens How to recognize depression in your children and resources available for more information.
Reason May 2005 Jacob Sullum	Thomas Szasz Takes on His Critics In Szasz Under Fire: The Psychiatric Abolitionist Faces His Critics, edited by Jeffrey A. Schaler, Szasz sticks to his guns and scores many points, but his responses are not always completely satisfying.
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American Family Physician November 15, 2000 Son & Kirchner	Depression in Children and Adolescents Depression among children and adolescents is common but frequently unrecognized. It affects 2 percent of prepubertal children and 5 to 8 percent of adolescents...
ifeminists May 5, 2004 Tony Zizza	Depression Screenings Don't Belong In Our Schools A recent article in the Denver Post reports Denver Health's School-Based Health Centers are screening every student - for depression - who steps inside any one of the 11 school-based "clinics."
Nursing May 2010 Sharon M. Valente	Assessing patients for suicide risk This article will help you update your knowledge of suicide risk factors and prevention strategies, and provide guidelines for effective intervention.
Salon.com May 25, 2000 J.B. Orenstein	Who will care for the crazy? She was 18 and had been found hanging by a noose. But the moment I saw her insurer, I knew she was one of the lucky ones.
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AskMen.com May 27, 2001 Joshua Levine	Are You A Hypochondriac? The facts are that only 16% of patients that see their General Practitioners for common ailments actually have physiological causes for their sicknesses...
ifeminists May 24, 2006 Tony Zizza	The Trouble With TeenScreen While some of our young people may properly rebel against TeenScreen and other dangerous in-school mental health propoganda that helps Big Pharma, what about all the young people who come running home convinced they are -- mentally ill?
HBS Working Knowledge April 6, 2015 Michael Blanding	Germanwings Lesson: Organizations Must Pay More Attention to Employee Mental Health The Germanwings tragedy catapulted the issues of mental health and corporate risk and responsibility into the world's headlines.
American Family Physician February 1, 2002 Mary-Anne Enoch & David Goldman	Problem Drinking and Alcoholism: Diagnosis and Treatment Although associated with considerable morbidity and mortality, alcoholism often goes unrecognized in a clinical or primary health care setting. Several brief screening instruments are available to quickly identify problem drinking, often a pre-alcoholism condition...
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American Family Physician May 15, 2004 Mark H. Ebell	Routine Screening for Depression, Alcohol Problems, and Domestic Violence This guide is one in a series that offers evidence-based tools to assist family physicians in improving their decision-making at the point of care.
ifeminists April 29, 2004 Tony Zizza	Stop Selling Depression and Drugs To Men Author questions how it can be wrong to profile terrorists, but okay to profile a particular gender as a profitable market for medications and subjective mental health labels?
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ifeminists January 26, 2005 Tony Zizza	NAMI Is Dead Wrong On Mental Health Screening It's time to relentlessly put President Bush's mental health screening monster and groups like NAMI in their place. Mandatory mental health screening is child abuse.
ifeminists March 24, 2009 Tony Zizza	Mental health stats merit scrutiny I don't believe the mental health system in Tennessee, or in this country for that matter, faces a severe crisis.
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ifeminists December 28, 2005 Tony Zizza	If Depression Hurts, Eli Lilly Is Killing Us Eli Lilly's latest marketing campaign is a form of propaganda that speaks to how low Big Pharma will go to keep Americans in chemical handcuffs.
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